Monday, November 26, 2007

Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters (NEWS)

To anyone who's thrilled by giant monsters duking it out over Tokyo, Eiji Tsuburaya was the visual effects mastermind behind Godzilla, Ultraman, and other numerous Japanese science fiction movies and TV shows. The first book on this legendary film figure (in English) details his fascinating life and career, featuring hundreds of film stills, posters, concept art, on-set photos, and much much more! Click HERE for more info and to order yours now!

13 comments:

THIS LOOKS GREAT! I LOVE THE OLD GODZILLA MOVIES AND STILL DO. BUT THEY NEVER AIRED ULTRAMAN IN MY AREA WHEN I WAS A KID, IN FACT I NEVER SAW AN EPISODE OF IT UNTIL THE MID 80'S. WE HAD SPACE GIANTS INSTEAD WHICH WAS PRETTY GOOD THOUGH.

Looks sweet,i love Kaiju! i really hope,misters Parker & Stone,can turn out a fun-filmed homage if they ever make GIANT MONSTERS ATTACK JAPAN,if they don't i'll chuck my Kenny doll out the window(though it'll probably be back the next day.)

I don't wanna brag too much but I met Ultraman actress Hiroko Sakurai (aka Fuji) at Comic Con about 7 years ago. She was incredibly nice and still looked great. I was trying to tell her how she was my first TV "crush" as I was completely obsessed with her when I was like 5 or 6 years old, (this was back when Ultraman was first syndicated in St Louis in the early 70's.) She didn't really understand me so her translator explained it to her and at first she looked emabrrassed but then she gave me a big beautiful hug. That hug was a long time coming over 30 years later!

I met Noriaki Yuasa at a G-Con one time too, cool old dude... it's almost surreal to meet a legendary director who is world famous for directing movies about a giant flying turtle monster.

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